Re: Where is the mysql package?
Well, the upshot of it is, the mysql package is *not* appearing in the packages file, and hasnt for a long time now. I am grateful that someone told me the exact url where to find it, but god, lots of people must just assume we dont have it. Thanks again. On 27 May 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote: > The Packages files should not see the difference. > > That is, they should be set up for some directory so that // > binary-* is the place for the binaries, which is true for the new dists/ > directory as well as for the /debian root for stable and frozen, > and only for the new directory for unstable (since unstable no longer uses > shared-for-all-versions contrib and non-free directories, but instead has > version-specific ones. > > (Where dist=main/contrib/non-free, and version=stable/frozen/unstable. > Also, the old version has main named stable/frozen/unstable instead.) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Brian White wrote: > Perhaps we could integrate this with the "new developer" screening. To > become a new developer, you must take over one of the orphaned packages. This idea was raised before. *please*. Do not do this. If you have some enthusiastic developer come along who wants to package something up, then you demand that they take another package on which they might not be familiar with, before they even start, thats a total killjoy. This is a volunteer effort, people make debian packages coz they enjoy the software and want to share it with others. You dont want to kill that, coz in most cases, you'll lose the maintainer of that package, plus they wont take over the orphaned one you want to. On the *other* hand, if you give them the welcome, let 'em in, then when they see how nice their package is, you can ask them nicely to if they could take on another... This approach would be far more effective. Let them have their first real package under their belt before taking on someone elses package which they arent familiar with the bugs and workarounds and problems the previous developer had. On a related note, games. Games are important. Please please please dont reject someone who wants to package up a game. Thats one of the things I like about debian, it has so many games. I first got mirrormagic working under debian... And I hope to see abuse.svga working again too now that he sources are available. Games are the best and easiest way to have your first "real" package, and its the most exciting (for a new developer anyways ;)) On another note. Is your screening process too vigorous? What happened to the EPIC irc package that was discussed here a while back? I dont see it in the distribution. Perhaps the screening process was too harsh? Im not dissing your work, its excellent ;) Just hoping things can be a little more open... It seems like its getting to be an old boys club. You guys are pretty mature compared to the IRC channels, but it seems that already the administration is top heavy, taking away a lot of coding/devel time. Tell me if my analysis is wrong, I hope it is. :> SirDibos www.linuxos.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cvs-buildpackage: CVS trees and automated builds
Does this mean that debian is finally going to have a make world, and also a CVS scheme just like the bsd's? Finally! Woohoo!!! Heres to Debian, the finest Linux distribution :> Now, if only we could configure the kernel at boot time like in bsd Heck, with the .deb format, this is gonna go bsd one better, with dependancies and things On 28 May 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > So, I can compile all the packages I want by just running: > __> cd /usr/local/src/Work; for i in *; do >> (cd $i; cvs-buildpackage -rsudo ) >> done -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Infocom Games (Was: long list of give away or orphaned packages)
On Sat, 31 May 1997, Brian White wrote: > > None of the Infocom games can be distributed, however. You have to > buy them. Heh. I guess that means we cant package up any of these then ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive SirDibos www.linuxos.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: `cgiwrap` packaged
Yes yes yes *Please* include this in the main distribution!!! On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > I've packaged `cgiwrap`, which makes it so ordinary users can safely > run CGI scripts. The scripts run SUID/SGID the user who owns the -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: `cgiwrap` packaged
On 7 Jun 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > I saw an announcement of apache-1.2. That WWW server includes SuExec, > which does what you want AFAIK (gonna try it myself next week) Wall, in that case, please make sure its turned on by default. I wanna just install apache, and bEwM! My users can act as if cgiwrap was already installed w/no configuration from me. SirDibos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: RFC: Kernel-package: Please add the '.config' file in the binary package
> Are there any objections to moving the file into /boot? Is there really any reason to take us farther away from the standard that everyone else uses? Its just one more gotcha that'll tick a newbie off when they follow their slackware friends advice, dl the kernel source, and just have at 'er like it says to in the Kernel HOWTO. SirDibos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: RFC: Kernel-package: Please add the '.config' file in the binary package
On 19 May 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Less blather this time. Yes, ther reason is that /boot > contains other useful information about the kernels ensconced there, > (like System.map, and psdatabase) but is missing one piece: exactly > what is configured into the kernel (which can be quite important). You are right. No further obs from me. Just, let it be symlinked to /usr/src/linux/.config too, ok? =) > I think that a small file is not too great a departure from > the standard, and, maybe, this should have been in the standard in > the first place. Again, you are right. From what I hear, bsd lets you configure the kernel at boot time... this is the least that we can do. SirDibos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
smail bug? FQND not in proper format
Basically, mailx conflicts with smail. dpkg: error processing xmysql (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up smail (3.2-3) ... Error: system's FQDN hostname (citytel_prct40.citytel.net) doesn't match RFC1035 syntax; cannot configure the mail system. dpkg: error processing smail (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of at: at depends on mail-transport-agent | smail | mailx; however: Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package smail which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet. Package smail is not configured yet. Package mailx is not installed. dpkg: error processing at (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: modutils timezones xmysql smail at -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where is the mysql package?
Im sure there used to be a mysql package. the mysql db libs are in, and xmysql front end is in the distro where the fundamental package? is it being worked on? Im positive I installed it ages ago... foolish me for uninstalling it, now its not there anymore. Is there any reason that snarf package is obsolete? I love that program, I use it to snarf lots of stuff when I cant be bothered to fire up ncftp, or when a webpage is involved and Im too lazy to boot X. If it needs a maintainer, I volunteer. If its been superseded by something better.. what? SirDibos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: RFC: Kernel-package: Please add the '.config' file in the binary package
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Mike Orr wrote: > It should be copied, and not symlinked. /boot must not have any symlinks > into /usr, in case /usr is trashed and you're trying to recover. > > If the symlink went the other way, from /usr/src/linux/.config into > /boot/.config, then "make config" would be changing the configuration file > for the running kernel as well as the one you're about to build. This You are right. However, what solution do you suggest in my case, where I have 6 different kernels cluttering up my / ? I use all of em, 1 is a backup, some implement different features. which .config should go in boot? Obviously, the config of the kernel that is running. Determining that doesnt seem nontrivial. It could be done by modifying the kernel-source package... I look forward to seeing what is done with regard to this. Whats needed is some way to associate with a given kernel image its corresponding "config". Again, we are getting into the realm of how bsd does it, where you determine the configuration at boot time, not compile time. SirDibos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is the mysql package?
On Sun, 25 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > The package is in hamm/non-free/binary-i386/devel . I don't know why Guy > put it into "devel". hmmm. is that the libs that are in devel? I must have been thinking more along the lines of a front end... and xmysql depends on xlib6 or something like that... whatever it is, it wont config correctly without it. also, the libs seem to be only for perl, and are in section interpreter. nothing in devel. hopefully, some C/C++ accessible libs are in the works? =) (lotsa people use tcl/tk with mysql instead of the Excel + VB combo be nice if this was set up for us in debian :>) > Good to here from someone using my package :-) I'll upload a newer version > (3.20.19-gamma) soon, so if you have any suggestions how to improve the > package, just tell me. Yep. How about a verbose mode that tells you when you connect, or if it cant, says so, and then when its done, prints xxx bytes downloaded in yyy seconds, at foo kb/s. something like: $ snarf -v http://linuxos.org/index.html connected to linuxos.org:80 getting file... got 63K in 45 seconds at 1.4K/s $ How about it, huh? =) SirDibos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is the mysql package?
But I always use dselect, and mysql package just doesnt show up no way no how in the Packages file =( And I do have it using hamm/ etc. Nothing but the most current. Could this be another case of the Packages being out of sync with the actual files? If so, its a sync problem thats lasted quite a while. On Mon, 26 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > ?? Please check out > hamm/non-free/binary-i386/devel/mysql_3.20.16beta-2.deb Thanks, Ill dl it > > Yep. How about a verbose mode that tells you when you connect, or if it > > cant, says so, and then when its done, prints xxx bytes downloaded in yyy > > seconds, at foo kb/s. > > > > something like: > > $ snarf -v http://linuxos.org/index.html > > connected to linuxos.org:80 > > getting file... > > got 63K in 45 seconds at 1.4K/s > > $ So how about it, huh? =) Snarf is one cool proggie. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Tom Lees wrote: > > I'd like something similar to: > > 1: single user > > 2: multiuser with minimal networking, probably without offering services > > 3: full networking (NFS, xfs, anonymous ftp, ...) > > 4: xdm? (yes, it is common on Slackware and RedHat to start xdm > >according to runlevel, but maybe Debian /etc/X11/config concept is > >better) I personally would like: 1: single user 2: multi user, NO networking 3: multi user, minimal networking 4: multi user, full networking 5: xdm 6: reboot 7-9: do whatever the heck you want with. SirDibos, telnet://lambda.moo.mud.org: -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
